Decry in a sentence

Artist Robert Pruitt uses the gold box chains ubiquitous in hip-hop and gang culture to decry the violence afflicting some Black communities.

As “Petro-Gate” makes headlines, and opposition voices decry electoral fraud, the outcome of the investigation will end with the Attorney General.

Award season continues unabated, with yet another round of high-profile nominations revealed, with this latest list causing entertainment media to jump for joy for some nods and also decry the lack of attention other talents and projects received.

Democrats’ hatred for and defunding of cops has fomented much of the crime they now decry.

Dozens of Iraqi protesters gathered Sunday to decry the so-called “honor killing” of a 22-year-old YouTube star who was allegedly strangled by her father, adding fuel to calls for legal reforms protecting women.

Republicans decry the bill as “harassing and intimidating the Supreme Court” (says Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley) and that it will “destroy” the high court (says South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham).

Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman also used remarks at the Riyadh conference on Saturday to decry the lack of investment in refining capacity that has left the world undersupplied.

So, yes, let’s by all means decry that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.

The NDP held a news conference on Tuesday to decry the government's record on health care, giving the sitting government a failing grade in 10 categories.

When a classic game is remade for modern audiences there will almost always be purists that decry the updating of a beloved title and any changes to the core gameplay that come along with it.

But he should be, especially since he has gone to such length to decry antisemitism when it comes from misguided campus activists.

Concerned community members gathered Saturday to decry proposed plans to turn park land into high-rise buildings in Glenmore Landing.

Critics decry the tough Texas approach as a throwback to the war on drugs, launched in the 1970s, which resulted in mass incarcerations without meaningfully addressing drug-related crime and addiction.

Many Iraqis decry the United States’ support for Israel, which they say is hypocritical given that American leaders talk publicly about their support for human rights, pointing at what they say are Israeli human rights abuses against Palestinians.

Nichols, Lenney and Zuiderveld have all taken to X, the social media platform formally known as Twitter, to decry the ad blitz.

The most extreme decry the “replacement” of whites.

Billboards decry the evil of abortion.

For days, protesters gathered outside the heavily guarded South Los Angeles sheriff’s station in tense but largely peaceful demonstrations to decry the deputies who shot and killed Dijon Kizzee last week in the nearby neighborhood of Westmont.

Some Jamaicans who lived through Manley’s leadership decry the hardships incurred during a portion of his tenure, but blamed U.S. intervention for sabotaging the potential for significant national development.

State policy, urban planners and pundits may decry this trend, but after a pandemic, dispersion may well seem a safer bet than densification.